Cronopios y de famas julio cortazar biography
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Julio Cortázar
Argentine writer (1914–1984)
"Cortázar" redirects here. For other uses, see Cortázar (disambiguation).
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Cortázar in 1967 | |
| Born | 26 August 1914 (1914-08-26) Ixelles, Belgium |
| Died | 12 February 1984(1984-02-12) (aged 69) Paris, France |
| Resting place | Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris |
| Occupation | Writer, translator |
| Nationality | Argentine, French |
| Genre | Short story, poetry, novel |
| Literary movement | Latin American Boom |
| Notable works | Hopscotch Blow-up and Other Stories |
| Notable awards | Prix Médicis (France, 1974), Rubén Darío Order of Cultural Independence (Nicaragua, 1983) |
Julio Florencio Cortázar[1] (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; Latin American Spanish:[ˈxuljokoɾˈtasaɾ]ⓘ) was an Argentine and naturalised Frenchnovelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Span
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Cronopio (literature)
A cronopio is a type of fictional individ appearing in works bygd Argentine writer Julio Cortázar (August 26, 1914–February 12, 1984).
Together with famas (literally fames) and esperanzas (hopes), cronopios are the subject of several short stories in his 1962 book Historias de cronopios y dem famas and Cortazar continued to write about cronopios, famas, and esperanzas in other texts through the 1960s.
Characteristic
[edit]In general, cronopios are depicted as naive and idealistic, disorganized, unconventional and sensitive creatures, who stand in contrast or opposition to famas (who are rigid, organized and judgmental if well-intentioned) and esperanzas (who are plain, indolent, unimaginative and dull).
In his stories Cortázar describes few physical features of cronopios. He does refer to them (in one of the early stories Costumbres de los famas) as "those greenish, frizzly, wet objects," but this description is just the första auth
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Title: Cronopios and Famas
Author: Julio Cortázar
Premise: Life is tough and surrealism isn’t.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
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Ever seen Blow Up?
That was Cortázar.
Blow Out?
In an alternate reality, also Cortázar, only at the end John Lithgow is holding a piece of card that says knife on it and Nancy Allen is dressed in the Robocop suit and John Travolta is delirious, sees Brad Davis’s dick in the cracks of the bug-ridden bedframe.
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There’s no easy way for me to ground this thing without first reading Wikipedia and I don’t want to do that so I’m gonna go from memory and guesswork.
Cortázar was an Argentinian writer who lived in other countries for most of his life and wasn’t Borges. There’s a pic of him posing with a cigarette in his mouth on one of his book jackets.
Does any of this matter?
Yes, it really does, in terms of surrealism and what it represents to the person utilising its cloaking powers. I use surrealism too. But I wasn’t alive between two wor